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Youlong Xia 1, Michael B. Ek 1, Christa D. Peters-Lidard 2, David Mocko 2, Justin Sheffield 3, and Eric F. Wood 3 1 Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), National Centers for Environmental Prediction, College Park, MD 2 Hydorlogical Sciences Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 1 Department of Civil and Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ CTB Seminar Series NCWCP, College Park, 24 April /37

1. NLDAS Drought Monitor, US Drought Monitor (USDM), and CPC Experimental Objective Blends 2. Development of an Objectively Blending Approach 3. Experiment of Ensemble Mean NLDAS Drought Indices 4. Evaluation of Blended NLDAS Drought Index 5. Future Work and Summary 2/37

NLDAS Drought Monitor 3/37 Acknowledgments: NLDAS project was supported by NOAA/OGP GAPP Program, NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program, NOAA/CPO CPPA Program (Climate Program of the Americas), and NOAA/CPO MAPP Program (Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections).

NLDAS Collaboration Partners NLDAS Development NCEP/EMC: Michael Ek, Youlong Xia, Jiarui Dong, Jesse Meng, Helin Wei Princeton University: Eric Wood, Justin Sheffield, Ming Pan NASA/GSFC: Christa Peters-Lidard, David Mocko, Sujay Kumar NWS/OHD: Victor Koren, Brian Cosgrove University of Washington: Dennis Lettenmaier, Ben Livneh NLDAS Products Application NCEP/CPC: Kingtse Mo, Li-Chuan Chen USDA: Eric Luebhusen, U.S. Drought Monitor Author Group NASA/GSFC: Data distribution group - Hualan Rui, Guang-Di Lou NCEP/EMC: Youlong Xia, Michael Ek 4/37 NLDAS Input Data Support NCEP/CPC: Ming-Yue Chen, Wesley Ebisuzaki

NLDAS Drought Monitor Anomaly and percentile for six variables and three time scales: Soil moisture, snow water, runoff, streamflow, evaporation, precipitation Current, Weekly, Monthly NCEP/EMC NLDAS website 5/37 Ensemble-Mean total runoff, top 1m and total column soil moisture percentiles for three time scales are directly provided to USDM author group through a daily Cron job

US Drought Monitor and its Statistics Percentile Drought area percentage for US, each USDM region, each state, and each county 6/37 Drought Classification Drought Classification (1) (2) (3) (4) Percentile D4 D3 D2 D1 D0 USDM Statistics (CONUS, Region, State) Six Rrgions: High Plains MidwestNortheastSouthSoutheastWest

7/37 CPC Experimental Objective Blends (Empirical Weights) Weights and Indices Weights and Indices

CPC Experimental Objective Blends (Empirical Weights) 8/437 Weights and Indices

2. Development of an Objectively Blending Approach 9/37 Acknowledgments: NLDAS project was supported by NOAA/OGP GAPP Program, NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program, NOAA/CPO CPPA Program (Climate Program of the Americas), and NOAA/CPO MAPP Program (Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections). Objectively Select Optimal Weights to Blend Drought Indices USDM and CPC experimental blends provide the basis to allow us to develop an approach:

Objectively Blending Approach 10/37 Hypothesis: USDM is assumed as “Ground Truth” Weekly drought area percentages for 5 categories were downloaded from USDM website (Archive) for CONUS, six USDM regions, and 48 States Monthly drought area percentages were calculated using number of days as the weights Monthly drought area percentages were calculated using a blended NLDAS ensemble mean percentile (w 1 I 1 +w 2 I 2 +w 3 I 3 ……), mask file (i.e., CONUS, Region, State), and USDM drought classification criteria Error Function = RMSE(USDM-NLDAS Blended) Select Weight w 1, w 2, w 3, … via minimize Error Function using an optimization approach

Objectively Blending Approach 11/ iterations to converge Use USDM as the ground “truth”

3. Experiment of Ensemble Mean NLDAS Drought Indices 12/37 Ensemble-mean Monthly Percentile (NLDAS drought Indices) Top 1m soil moisture (SM1) Total column soil moisture (SMT) Evapotranspiration (ET) Total runoff (Q) To support CPC Experimental Objective Blends of Drought Indicators

Experiment Setup Three Tests: CONUS, Region (6 USDM regions), State (48 states) Two periods: Training period (240 months from 2000 to 2009) Validation period (24 months from 2010 to 2011) NLDAS-2 products were routinely used by USDM author group from January 2010 Very Fast Simulated Annealing Approach was used to search for optimal weights in this study 13/37

Error (cost) function E can be expressed as Root Mean Square Error between drought area percentage calculated from NLDAS and derived from USDM: Experiment Setup Experiment is run for CONUS, each of six regions, and each of forty-eight states separately. Total 1000 runs are needed to achieve to converge a global minima for each run. Total 55,000 runs are executed. This process will search for optimal weight coefficients for each state and variable. The weight coefficients searched from this process will be shown in next slide. Objective Blended NLDAS drought Index (OBNDI) is expressed as OBNDI = W 1 SM1 + W 2 SMT+ W 3 ET +W 4 Q 14/37 Calculate NLDAS drought area percentage USDM drought area percentage (1) (2) (3)

U.S./RegionW1W1 W2W2 W3W3 W4W4 Cost CONUS West High Plains South Midwest Southeast Northeast Table 1: Optimal weight coefficients for CONUS and Region experiment (maximum in bold) (Optimal Blended drought index = W 1 SM1 + W 2 SMT + W 3 ET + W 4 Q) 15/37

Normalized weight coefficients for NLDAS ensemble-mean monthly top 1m soil moisture (SM1), total column soil moisture (SMT), evapotranspiration (ET), and total runoff (Q) percentiles – Objective Blended NLDAS drought Index (OBNDI) Cropland (1m root zone) Shrub land, Woodland, Grasslands (2m root zone) NLDAS soil moisture (SM1 and SMT) plays a dominant role for all forty-eight states except for FL and SC ET and Q play a negligible role (<1%) for most of forty-eight states, and a modified role for some states. 16/37 State depended

Evaluation of Blended NLDAS Drought Index Acknowledgment : This work is supported by MAPP and CTB Evaluation Metrics: Cumulative Density Function (CDF), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Bias, Correlation Coefficient (R), Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) 17/37

Cumulative Density Function of R and RMSE for 48 States Training Period upper line means better performance (larger R, smaller RMSE) 18/37

Cumulative Density Function (CDF) of R and RMSE for 48 States Validation Period /37

Region and State performs better than CONUS State performs slightly better than Region State experiment will be discussed for following slides 20/37

Number of categories with significant correlation at the 95% confidence level for training (top) and validation (bottom) period Spatial distribution of STATE’s capacity (correlation) In South, Southeast, and Midwest, STATE performs well 2009 Mo et al., 2012 Number of gauge stations has been largely reduced since /37

Nah-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) over Continental United States Training Period Validation Period where A is modeled drought area percentage, and O is USDM drought area percentage. NSE = 0.0 Modeled is as same accurate as mean of USDM drought area percentage NSE > 0.0 Modeled is better than the mean (>0.4 skillful) NSE<0.0 Modeled is worse than the mean 22/37 As drought severity is increased Performance is decreased

Comparison of USDM and NLDAS drought area percentage in nine states for D1-D4 (from moderate drought to exceptional drought) category and (training period) 23/37 ________ USDM NLDAS/State USDM is used as the ground “Truth”

Comparison of USDM and NLDAS drought area percentage in nine states for D1-D4 category (validation period) 24/37 ________ USDM NLDAS/State

Southeast and Northeast 25/37 Overall performance of State is good except for a few cases ________ USDM NLDAS/State The reason needs to be indentified in future

Midwest Region 26/37 Low skill Overall performance of State is good for some states in this region ________ USDM NLDAS/State

West Region 27/37 Performance of State is worse than the other regions and need to be improved in future ________ USDM NLDAS/State

Evaluation of Optimally Blended NLDAS Drought Index (State) in Texas 28/37 5 Drought Categories: D0-D4, D1-D4, D2-D4,D3-D4, D4-D4 Xia et al. (2013d), in preparation 2011 Texas Drought For severe drought (D2 or above), the blend underestimates USDM

Comparison of USDM and NLDAS at three states for five drought categories in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana 29/37 USDM drought area variation NLDAS drought area variation Comparison of USDM and NLDAS shows good performance for NLDAS blends

Drought Variation: Monthly Animation 30/37 Comparison of Optimally Blended NLDAS Drought Index and USDM 2011 USDM NLDAS

30-year ( ) monthly drought area percentage reconstruction Texas Kansas Kentucky Xia et al. (20113d), in preparation 31/37 Drought area percentage variation depends on state and month/year

32/37 GRACE-based ground water storage Monthly anomaly correlation NLDAS has poor streamflow simulation in circled area Land Information System (LIS) developed by NASA ESI-Evaporative Stress Index VegDRI – Vegetation Drought Index SPI – Standard Precipitation index PDI – Palmer Drought Index PDSI – Palmer Drought Severity Index Gauges reduced from 2002

SCAN soil moisture is assimilated to NLDAS-2 (NASA LIS-NLDAS) (from Christa Peters-Lidard’s AMS talk 2013) 33/37 some improvements in circled area

Some Preliminary Thoughts 1.Can we explore this work to CPC experimental objective blends? 2.Can we reconstruct long-term drought area percentage using long-term CPC operational drought indices (from 1900 –present) if we can use this framework? 3.Should we use this framework for long-term drought and short-term drought separately as done in CPC? If so, can USDM provide drought area percentage statistics separately for short-term and long-term drought as the indices controlling these two drought types may be different? 4.How to collaborate with research community to explore the possibility of objectively blending drought indices based on current USDM statistics, experiences, and expertise? 5.How to select drought indices according to data accuracy and reliability? drought type - meteorological, hydrologic, and agricultural. Short-term and long-term. Data source – observed (low spatial resolution, long-term data), remotely-sensed (high spatial resolution, short-term data), and modeled (from low to high resolution, from short-term to long-term data) 6.More research is needed …… 34/37

1. NLDAS blend can basically capture USDM drought area percentage for states for category D0-D4, and D1-D4, in particular for the training period. 2. Most reliable states are located in the Midwest, South and Southeast region, and the results for West region and Northeast should be cautiously used as blend shows low simulation skills, in particular for validation period and D3-D4 and D4-D4 category. For very severe drought, blend shows low skills as we have a small-size sample only. 3. Texas, as the most reliable state, blend has the best performance and simulation skills for both training and validation period and for all five drought categories. 4. In spite of existing weakness, drought index reconstruction can be executed in the continental United States. The reconstructed drought index is reproducible (repeatable). 5. The framework still have big room to improve through adding more drought indices from observations (e.g., streamflow), remote sensing, and CPC operational drought indices. USDM county-scale statistics will be tested as high-resolution (4km) NLDAS will become EMC quasi-operational products in near future. Summary of Objective Blends of Multiple NLDAS Drought Indices 35/37

References for NLDAS-2 Ek, M.B., Y. Xia, E.F. Wood, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, D. Lettemaier, and NLDAS team, 2011: North American Land Data Assimilation Phase 2 (NLDAS-2): Development and Applications, GEWEX news, 21, 6-7. Xia, Y., B. Cosgrove, M. B. Ek, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, E. F. Wood, K. Mo, and NLDAS team, 2013a: Overview of North American Land Data Assimilation System, chapter 11 in Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation, edited by Shunlin Liang et al., World Scientific, pp. Xia, Y., M.B. Ek, J. Sheffield, B. Livneh, M. Huang, H. Wei, S. Feng, L. Luo, J. Meng, and E. Wood, 2013b: Validation of Noah- simulated soil temperature in the North American Land Data Assimilation System Phase 2. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. 52, Xia, Y., K.E. Mitchell, M.B. Ek, J. Sheffield, B. Cosgrove, and NLDAS team, 2012a: Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D03109, doi: /2011JD Xia, Y., K.E. Mitchell, M.B. Ek, B. Cosgrove, J. Sheffield, and NLDAS team, 2012b: Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 2. Validation of model-simulated streamflow, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D03110, doi: /2011JD Xia, Y., J. Sheffield, M. B. Ek, J. Dong, N. Chaney, H. Wei, J. Meng, and E. F. Wood, 2013c, Evaluation of multi-model simulated soil moisture in NLDAS-2, J. Hydrology (in revision). Xia, Y., M.B. Ek, C. Peters-Lidard, D. Mocko, J. Sheffield, and E.F. Wood, 2013d: Application of USDM statistics in NLDAS-2: objectively blended NLDAS drought Index over the continental United States, J. Geophys. Res. (in preparation). 36/37 References for VFSA Xia, Y., 2007: Calibration of LaD model in the Northeast United States using observed annual streamflow. J. Hydrometeor., 8, Xia,Y., 2008: Adjustment of global precipitation data for orographic effects using observed annual streamflow and the LaD model, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D04106, doi: /2007JD /2007JD008545

Comments and Suggestions to the following scientists: EMC LDAS General (NLDAS, HRAP-NLDAS, GLDAS): NLDAS EMC: NLDAS NASA: HRAP-NLDAS: GLDAS: NOAA NLDAS Website NASA NLDAS Website / 37/37